Last week, the manager of an old jeweler"s shop received a letter marked "personal". As he was very busy, the letter lay on his desk till teatime. When he opened it, a $100 note fell. out onto his desk. With the note was a short letter. This is what it said:
Dear sir,
I got engaged (订婚的) forty years ago. Unfortunately at that time there was a lot of unemployment and I lost my job. I was out of work for about six months before I got another one. Of course I was very short of money.
I came to your shop to buy a wedding ring one day. The assistant brought some rings for me to have a look, later she was called away, and then I put one of the rings into my pocket. When she came back, I said I did not know the size of my girlfriend"s finger.
So I left the shop without paying for the ring. My wife died a month ago, and the fact that I never paid for her ring has been on my conscience
(让我良心不安) all these years. I always feel guilty about that. At that time the ring cost $ 20, and I think that is about five times- $100 at today"s price. Now I am sending you that amount.
Yours truly,
A customer
After reading the letter, the manager said, "Well, well, well, life is full of surprise!"
小题1:The ring that the customer put into his pocket was_______ at that time.小题2:The underlined word "unemployment" means "_______" in Chinese.小题3:How long has the customer"s wife been dead?| A．A week. | B．A month. | C．A year. | D．Two months. |
小题4:Which is NOT true according to the passage?| A．The manager opened the letter by himself. | | B．The manager thought life was full of surprise. | | C．When the customer"s wife knew the fact, she was impatient. | | D．The customer always feels sad for not paying for the ring years ago. |
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小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:C |
试题分析：短文大意：一位顾客在四十年前订婚时，因失业缺钱，在一家珠宝店给女朋友拿了一枚戒指而没有付钱。他的妻子一个月前去世了，而事实上所有的这些年他一直在为没有付戒指款而感到内疚，所以他给珠宝店的经理写了一封信并且寄去原戒指款的五倍作为补偿，珠宝店经理读后大为感叹“好的，好的，好的，生活中充满了惊喜！”
小题1:细节理解题。根据At that time the ring cost $ 20, and I think that is about five times- $100 at
today"s price（在那时间戒指20美元，我认为这约是今天价格的五倍，达100美元）可知选.A。
小题2:词义猜测题。根据and I lost my job.（我失去了我的工作）可知unemployment 的意思是失业，所以选D。
小题3:细节理解题。根据My wife died a month ago （我的妻子一个月前去世了）可知选B。
小题4:细节理解题。读短文可知经理自己打开信，读后说生活中充满了惊喜。客户总是为几年前没付戒指钱而感到不安，所以选C。 |
核心考点
试题【 Last week, the manager of an old jeweler"s shop received a letter marked "perso】；主要考察你对
人生百味类等知识点的理解。
[详细]举一反三
根据短文内容，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
“Never give up!” It is my law(法则) of life. It has brought me ____. I learned the law from my father"s ____ story.
My father was ____ in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu，in China. When he was a young boy，he went to school in the morning，then ___ in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework ____ midnight. Life was hard，because they had no ___！
At the age of 14，my father heard of the United States of America. It was the land of gold，the land where ____ people can become rich.
“____ don"t I go to America？” he thought to himself，full of hope.
So，my father came to America. “I had thought it was easy to ____ money in America，” he told me. “But when I arrived there，I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire(雇佣) me because I spoke ____ English. Later，I worked in a small restaurant，cleaning up tables，____dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was ____ for the first few years. I worked from 10 a. m. to 11 p. m. I wanted to go to school to learn English，but it was impossible. I couldn"t ____ the schooling(学费). ”
My father ____ working hard，and reached his goal.
“Alan，” he often says to me. “If you want something，you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come ____ in life. ” That is what I learned from my father.
| 小题1: | | A．disaster | B．loss | C．success | D．pity |
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| 小题2: | | A．life | B．fashion | C．danger | D．history |
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| 小题3: | | A．famous | B．lucky | C．rich | D．born |
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| 小题4: | | A．taught | B．worked | C．studied | D．slept |
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| 小题5: | | A．until | B．towards | C．for | D．during |
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| 小题6: | | A．experience | B．energy | C．time | D．money |
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| 小题7: | | A．kind | B．poor | C．strong | D．lazy |
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| 小题9: | | A．discover | B．make | C．collect | D．spend |
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| 小题10: | | A．little | B．good | C．much | D．excellent |
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| 小题11: | | A．giving | B．running | C．washing | D．receiving |
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| 小题12: | | A．comfortable | B．cheerful | C．nice | D．hard |
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| 小题13: | | A．borrow | B．need | C．afford | D．pay |
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| 小题14: | | A．kept | B．finished | C．minded | D．stopped |
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| 小题15: | | A．really | B．easily | C．quietly | D．slowly |
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On a Friday night，a poor young violinist was playing his violin at the entrance of the subway station. The music was so great that people slowed down to listen and put some money into his hat.
The next day，the violinist came to the entrance again. He put down his hat as usual. Beside the hat was a piece of paper with some words on it. It said，“A George Sang has put an important thing into my hat by mistake. Welcome to claim(认领)it.”Soon the people were all attracted by the words and wondered what it could be. After a while a man rushed through the crowd，took the violinist’s shoulders and said，“I knew you would certainly come here.”The violinist asked，“Did you lose something?”“Lottery(彩票).”The violinist took out a lottery ticket with Sang’s name on it. Sang took it and danced happily.
Sang was an office worker. He bought the lottery and won a prize of$500，000.But when he gave$50 to the violinist for his wonderful music，the lottery ticket was thrown in, too. The violinist was a college student. That morning，he was going to fly to Vienna for high education. However，when he found the ticket，he cancelled the flight and returned to the entrance.
Later someone asked the violinist why he didn’t take the lottery ticket to pay the tuition fee(学费).He said“Although I don’t have much money，I live happily. If I lose honesty(诚实)，I won’t be happy forever.”
小题1:The young man played the violin for ________ at the entrance of the subway station.| A．pleasure | B．money | C．Love | D．friends |
小题2:George Sang put__________ into the violinist’s hat on a Friday night by mistake.| A．money | B．1ottery | C．money and lottery | D．nothing |
小题3:George Sang was very__________ to see the young violinist the next day.| A．worried | B．sorry | C．exciting | D．happy |
小题4:The underlined word“cancelled”means __________ .小题5:What’s the best title(标题)for this passage?| A．The meaning of honesty | | B．An office worker and a lottery ticket | | C．The importance of being honest | | D．A violinist and an office worker |
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When I was about 12, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings(缺点). Week by week her list grew: I was very thin, I wasn’t a good student, I talked too much, I was too proud, and so on. I tried to hear all this as long as I could. At last, I became very angry. I ran to my father with tears in my eyes. He listened to me quietly, then he asked. “Are the things she says true or not? Janet, didn’t you ever wonder what you’re really like ? Well, you now have that girl’s opinion. Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things she said.”
I did as he told me. To my great surprise, I discovered that about half the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t change (like being very thin), but a good number I could—and suddenly I wanted to change. For the first time I go to fairly clear picture of myself.
I brought the list back to Daddy. He refused to take it.“That’s just for you,” he said.“You know better than anyone else the truth about yourself. But you have to learn to listen, not just close your ears in anger and feeling hurt. When something said about you is true, you’ll find it will be of help to you. Our world is full of people who think they know your duty. Don’t shut your ears. Listen to them all, but hear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to do.”
Daddy’s advice has returned to me at many important moments. In my life, I’ve never had a better piece of advice.
小题1:What does “Week by week her list grew” mean? | A．Week by week she discovered more shortcomings of mine and pointed them out to me. | | B．She had made a list of my shortcomings and she kept on adding new ones to it so that it was growing longer and longer. | | C．I was having more and more shortcomings as time went on. | | D．Week by week, my shortcomings grew more serious. |
小题2:Why did her father listen to her quietly? | A．Because he believed that what her daughter’s “enemy” said was mostly true. | | B．Because he had been so angry with his daughter’s shortcomings that he wanted to show this by keeping silent for a while. | | C．Because he knew that his daughter would not listen to him at that moment. | | D．Because he wasn’t quite sure which girl was telling the truth. |
小题3:Which do you think would be the best title for this passage? | A．Not an Enemy, but the Best Friend | | B．The Best Advice I’ve Ever Had | | C．My Father | | D．My Childhood |
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When I was 16 years old, a boy gave me an important gift. It was a .
It was the early autumn of my first year at a middle school, and my old school was far away. a result, no one knew who I was. I was very , and afraid to make friends with anyone.
Every time I the other students talking and laughing, I felt my heart . I couldn’t talk to anyone about my problems. And I didn’t want my parents to me.
Then one day, my classmates talked with their friends, but I sat at my desk unhappily as usual. , a boy came into the classroom. I didn’t know he was. He passed me and then turned back. He me, without a word, but a smile.
, I felt the touch of something bright and friendly. It made me feel happy and .
That smile changed my life. I started to talk with other students and made friends. Day by day, I became to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile has become my best friend now.
One day I asked him why he smiled, but he couldn’t remember at me!
I have been happy every day all the dark days have gone. I believe that the world is what you think it is. If you think you are lonely, you might always be alone. So smile at the world and smiles will come back to you.
| 小题2: | | A．For | B．Because | C．As | D．Since |
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| 小题3: | | A．lonely | B．happy | C．hungry | D．popular |
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| 小题4: | | A．heard | B．listened | C．listen to | D．heard of |
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| 小题5: | | A．sing | B．playful | C．broken | D．dance |
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| 小题6: | | A．look for | B．worry about | C．feel glad like | D．know about |
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| 小题7: | | A．loudly | B．quietly | C．sadly | D．happily |
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| 小题8: | | A．At present | B．Just at that moment | C．By the time | D．For a moment |
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| 小题9: | | A．whose | B．that | C．which | D．who |
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| 小题10: | | A．looked at | B．looked for | C．looked like | D．looked after |
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| 小题11: | | A．Suddenly | B．Luckily | C．Hurriedly | D．Seriously |
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| 小题13: | | A．near | B．nearly | C．closer | D．closely |
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| 小题14: | | A．laughing | B．looking | C．meeting | D．smiling |
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| 小题15: | | A．though | B．because | C．even if | D．until |
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James is a good student and he has lots of friends，but he also has a problem．Some older boys are bullying(欺负)him at school．James is very unhappy and he doesn"t know what to do about it．Here are some suggestions to him and other teenagers in this situation．
Don"t feel worried．It"s not your fault(过错)! Being bullied can make you feel very lonely and angry，but you are not alone．Don"t feel that you have to hide the problem．You should find a person you can trust，and tell them．It might be your teacher，your parents，or even your friend"s parents．After you tell someone，you will get some support and feel some relief(解脱)．
Speaking to an adult might make you nervous，but here are other things you can do．Some people express their feelings more easily on paper．Write a letter to someone or keep a diary．Include all the details(细节)about what the bullies do, as well as when and where the bullying happens．You can use it as proof to show what is going on．And it is a wonderful idea to show your letter or diary to a teacher or another responsible adult．Then the bullies will feel very afraid if their names appear in a letter!
Also，don"t show you are sad and don"t try and fight with the bullies. You could get in trouble yourself. Ignore them and just walk away. The bullies will soon stop.
小题1:What do you think the text is trying to tell us?| A．What to do about being bullied. | | B．How to be a good student at school. | | C．What to write well in a diary. | | D．How to give suggestions to teenagers. |
小题2:You"d better go and find a person you can trust and ____.| A．know what happens | B．learn from them | | C．ask for help | D．make them lonely |
小题3: If you remember and follow the suggestions above, ____.| A．nobody will speak to the bullies | | B．everybody will feel some relief | | C．someone will express their feelings | | D．the bullies will soon stop |
小题4:What does the underlined word "ignore" mean in the text?| A．take no notice of | B．take care of | | C．make full use of | D．get more help from |
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